# Why not "Mister Watson"?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 7, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-not-mister-watson/733787 "2015-10-07T04:22:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-not-mister-watson/733787/41 "2015-10-10T09:55:21Z")

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> [@Quartz](#):
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> Sometimes even in the hospital. I recently had eye problems and was being treated by an ophthalmologist listed as Doctor K. On a later visit she was listed as Mrs K, so I congratulated her on her promotion, only for her to tell me that she’d long been a surgeon.

Did she get married in the meantime, I know one surgeon who started going by Mrs after her wedding, because “Miss sounded like a teenager”. Interestingly she kept her maiden name.

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